According to Joystiq, the newest edition of Famitsu Wave has a DVD with 8 minutes of information regarding Final Fantasy XIV. There is no character levelling system, it seems that your strengths and skills are more reliant on the equipment you have.

If My Life as a King played like SimCity meets a SquareEnix RPG, then My Life as a Darklord is the much less well-known SimTower meets a SquareEnix RPG. You play Mira, the newly crowned 16 y/o Dark Lord (or Dark Lady I guess). She is the daughter of the previous Dark Lord who was trapped in a crystal. The game has a very cute-gothic style to it.

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RPGamer has found a scan that advertises the new Final Fantasy game that Square Enix has been counting down, and I’ve been following. Note the picture at the bottom: it’s definitely the picture that Square Enix has been using in their countdown.

Over at Massively, they’ve taken a couple of jumps to their conclusion, but there are some signs indicating beta testing beginning this fall for Final Fantasy XIV. Squeenix has been claiming that they wanted a longer beta period for FF14 than they had with 11, and with the game due out next year, it needs to start soon to fit that claim.

Unfortunately, Square Enix’s press conference is not allowing video, and they’re only talking about Final Fantasy XIV. Looks like I drew the short straw on coverage. I won’t have any new footage for you, but I can promise you some new info on Final Fantasy XIV thanks to the Q&A session.

Today at Sony’s E3 press conference, they talked about Final Fantasy XIII; then, they announced Final Fantasy XIV…Online. That’s the same tag that was placed on Final Fantasy XI. From the looks of it, this will be Squeenix’s second foray into the MMO world under it’s flagship series.